49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.

Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.

So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another."

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live."

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely--in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby--

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.""Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!"

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?